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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- Francis Bacon,
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Natural History--Century X--Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc.
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For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things
whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I
appeal unto Caesar.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. XXV, v. 11)
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Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains
in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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Authority is never without hate.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Parolles at II, iii)
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Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute 'shall'?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at III, i)
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the
creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great
image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Angus at V, ii)
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Thus can the demigod Authority
Make us pay down for our offense by weight
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,
On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Claudio at I, ii)
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Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured
His glassy essence--like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
would all themselves laugh mortal.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him
gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led
by the nose with gold.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Clown at IV, iv)
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Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Morte d'Arthur (l. 121)
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Author: Thomas Huxley
Source: None
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A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.
Author: Eric Werkowitz
Source: None
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Author: Yugoslav Proverb
Source: None
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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Author: Keith Richards
Source: None
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
Author: Austin O'Malley
Source: None
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Author: John Winthrop
Source: None
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